Hair-retaining device.



No. 857,222. PATBNTED JUNE 18 1907.

M. L. BAGLBY.

HAIR RETAINING DEVICE: APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3 1907.

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MA ION L. BAGLEY, OF SANTA BARBARA, cALIFoRNIA.

HAIR-RETAINING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed J n ary 3,1907. erial No. 350,677.

Patented June 18, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARION L. BAGLEY, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Barbara, in the county of Santa Barbara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Retaining Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for securing hair-retaining devices in place and thereby preventing their loss by slipping out of the hair, a most frequent oc,

currence at present; and the object of my invention is to provide a device of the class described which will prove cheap in manufacture, simple in construction and eflicient in operation.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle, Figure 1 shows the hair-pin; Fig. 2 represents the cap in sectional view and in engagement with the prongs of the hair-pin Fig. 3 shows the parts assembled; Fig. 4 is a central sectional view of the cap and Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line A-A of Fig. 3.

Both the prongs or legs a of the hair-pin b are pierced with holes 0 near the ends. The cap (1 is formed with a socket e into which project the studs f from the interior wall'of the cap. The opening into the socket e is narrow, being of about the same width as the thickness of the prongs a. This permits the free insertion of the prongs and serves to aid in guiding them into engagement with the studs f.

The distance from the bottom of the socket to the studs is substantially the same as the distance of the holes 0 from the lower end of the prongs. Hence, when the prongs are forced home against the bottom of the socket, thle1 studs and the holes will register with each ot er.

The operation will be readily understood from the foregoing description. After passing the hair-pin through the hair, the prongs arecompressed slightly to bring the points so close together as to avoid the studs f, when the points are inserted in the cap. This is shown by the dotted line osition of the points in Fig. 2. The cap (I is passed over the points of the rongs a until the latter are seated in the soc et 6, when the pressure on the prongs a is removed. The prongs will then s ring into place, the studs {entering the ho es 0, as shown in Fig. 2. T width of the opening of the socket e brings the holes 0 and studsf into register, since the prongs have ractically a sliding fit and cannot wabble a out in the socket.

What I claim is.

In a device of the character described, the combination of a hair-"pin the prongs of which are resilient and are pierced each with a hole near its free end; and a cap formed'with a socket from the interior wall of which project toward each other studs adapted to engage in the holes in said prongs; the distance of said holes from the lower end of said prongs being substantially the same as the distance of said studs from the bottom of said socket.

MARION L. BAGLEY.

Witnesses:

O. W. GIDNEY, E. A. RrzoR.

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